Kingdom: Time and State

Distributed computation is about time and state. That is, in order for more than one component to communicate, state must be shared, and all that takes time.

Most programmers anthropomorphize their work. They think about one thread of control carrying out the entire program in the same way they would if they had to do the job themselves. Modern computers, however, switch between tasks very quickly, and in multi-core, multi-CPU, or distributed systems, two events may take place at exactly the same time. Defects rush to fill the gap between the programmer's model of how a program executes and what happens in reality. These defects are related to unexpected interactions between threads, processes, time, and information. These interactions happen through shared state: semaphores, variables, the file system, and, basically, anything that can store information.

J2EE Bad Practices: JVM Termination

Java/JSP

Abstract

A web application should not attempt to shut down its container.

Explanation

It is never a good idea for a web application to attempt to shut down the application container. A call to a termination method is probably part of leftover debug code or code imported from a non-J2EE application.

References

[1] ERR09-J. Do not allow untrusted code to terminate the JVM CERT

[2] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1

[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1

[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 3

[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark normal

[6] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 382

[7] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001094

[8] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-5 Denial of Service Protection (P1)

[9] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-5 Denial of Service Protection

[10] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2004 A9 Application Denial of Service

[11] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 6.5.9

[12] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP6080 CAT II

[13] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP6080 CAT II

[14] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP6080 CAT II

[15] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP6080 CAT II

[16] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP6080 CAT II

[17] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP6080 CAT II

[18] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP6080 CAT II

[19] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[20] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[21] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[22] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[23] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[24] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[25] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[26] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[27] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[28] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[29] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[30] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[31] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[32] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-002400 CAT II

[33] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Denial of Service (WASC-10)

[34] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Denial of Service

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